Definition of Portrait

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Portrait

The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.

Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.

To portray; to draw.

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Portrait Quotations

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Berenice Abbott

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Annie Leibovitz

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Frida Kahlo

Portrait Translations

portrait in Danish is billede
portrait in Dutch is evenbeeld, beeltenis, portret
portrait in French is portrait
portrait in Portuguese is retrato
portrait in Spanish is retrato

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